Question

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As food is essential to life, many odiomatic expessions derive from food and cooking processes. Choose the correct idiom in each of these situations. Can you find perfect equivalents in Romania?
1. Every day my neighbour's dog wakes me up at 4:00 a.m.
a) It gives me food for though
b) I'm fed up
c) I'm spilling the beans

2. Her children's constant fighting ........on their mother's nerves
a) grated
b) boiled
c) sifted

3.The band was .......enthusiasm for the foodball team.
a) melting down
b) whipping up
c) dampening

4.The little boy said 'I'm sorry mother'.Mother's anger......
a)buttered
b)melted
c) peeled

5. He was the......of his mother's eye.
a)pear
b)apple
c)banana

6. The committe voted to delay the project until next year.....
a) they put it on the back burner
b) they burned it
c) they put it on the hot plate

7.He sat on the bus......between two young ladies.
a)sandwhiched
b) toasted
c) fried

8. As the wheather was getting warmer Michael .....his sweater.
a)mixed
b)cut up
c)peeled off

9. Leslie's wallet was stolen.He had a lot of money in it. He was....
a) sugary sweet
b) buttered up
c) boiling mad

10. Mathematics? Oh,that's not my....
a) cup of tea
b) galss of wine
c)piece of cake

11. He was so afraid that his legs turned to....
a)potatoes
b)jelly
c)cream

12.'You haven't toyched my apple-pie!' 'Oh, i'm just not....'
a) sugar-minded
b) sweet-toothed
c) sweet-eyed

Answer 1

1 a,2 a,3c,4 a,5c,6b,7 a,8 b, 9 a ,10 a ,11 c,12 c